Windows
Tablet clock was four hours off
The tablet showed the wrong time by about four hours. The technician got logged in and synced the clock.
Killed once by someone from XL.net, on 2025-09-19.
Affects
Hardware
- tablet
What you see
- The tablet time was incorrect and off by about four hours.
Why it happens
Suspected Suspected local time drift; the ticket only shows the clock was synced, not why it was wrong.
When it shows up
A Windows tablet shows the wrong local time and the clock is several hours off.
You are in this case if:
- System clock does not match the expected local time by about four hours.
1 fix below
The steps that killed it
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Someone from XL.net killed this on a Windows computer on 2025-09-19. It is written up from that one repair, so it cites no outside page.